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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Obama to Call for Broad Plan to Reduce Debt — WASHINGTON — President Obama will call this week for Republicans to join him in writing a broad plan to raise revenues and reduce the growth of popular entitlement programs, as the battle over the nation's financial troubles moves past Friday's …
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Talking Points Memo, USA Today, Runnin' Scared, The Daily Dish, The Atlantic Online, Booman Tribune and Paul Krugman
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Wall Street Journal:
Obama Puts Taxes on Table — President Barack Obama will lay out his plan for reducing the nation's deficit Wednesday, belatedly entering a fight over the nation's long-term financial future. But in addition to suggesting cuts—the current focus of debate—the White House looks set to aim …
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The Lonely Conservative, American Power, Fox News, Instapundit and Zandar Versus The Stupid
Elise Foley / The Huffington Post:
Mike Pence: Spending Deal ‘Probably Not Good Enough’ To Vote For
Mike Pence: Spending Deal ‘Probably Not Good Enough’ To Vote For
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The Daily Caller, Washington Post, Riehl World View and Yglesias
Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress:
Cantor Sees Current Medicare and Medicaid Programs As A ‘Safety Net’ For 'People Who Frankly Don't Need One'
Cantor Sees Current Medicare and Medicaid Programs As A ‘Safety Net’ For 'People Who Frankly Don't Need One'
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Crooks and Liars and Hullabaloo
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
POTUS SPEECH THIS WEEK ON LONG-TERM DEFICIT REDUCTION. …
POTUS SPEECH THIS WEEK ON LONG-TERM DEFICIT REDUCTION. …
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Firedoglake and AMERICAblog News
Joshua Miller / ABCNEWS:
Obama Advisor David Plouffe: Budget Cuts Both ‘Draconian’ and ‘Historic’
Obama Advisor David Plouffe: Budget Cuts Both ‘Draconian’ and ‘Historic’
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Los Angeles Times, Riehl World View, Crooks and Liars, Doug Ross, PERRspectives, CNN, That Mr. G Guy's Blog, Taylor Marsh and The Hill
Abby Phillip / The Politico:
Obama to make major budget address
Obama to make major budget address
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Reuters, Outside the Beltway, Pirate's Cove, CNN, MyDD and TalkLeft
Michael Isikoff / msnbc.com:
Comments follow statements by Donald Trump questioning legitimacy of president's birth record — Below: — The Hawaiian state health official who personally reviewed Barack Obama's original birth certificate has affirmed again that the document is “real” and denounced “conspiracy theorists” …
James Poulos / Ricochet.com:
Trump is Final Proof that the Political Class Has Failed — There are two main theories cooperating to explain the Trump phenomenon: — Donald Trump is today's best self-promoter and professional opportunist. — The Republican field of presumptive candidates for president is lame.
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Shot in the Dark, Pajamas Media and PoliPundit.com
John Thompson / New York Times:
The Prosecution Rests, but I Can't — I SPENT 18 years in prison for robbery and murder, 14 of them on death row. I've been free since 2003, exonerated after evidence covered up by prosecutors surfaced just weeks before my execution date. Those prosecutors were never punished.
Jon Wiener / The Nation:
NPR Station in LA Suspends Planned Parenthood Spots — One of two NPR stations in the Los Angeles area, KPCC-FM, suspended its regularly-scheduled Planned Parenthood spots on Friday, in response to Republican demands that Congress eliminate federal funding for the family planning group.
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LA Observed, Weasel Zippers, RHRealityCheck.org and Pajamas Media
Claire Ellicott / Daily Mail:
BNP man ‘videoed burning Koran in garage’ arrested and charged — A senior member of the British National Party has been arrested for allegedly burning a copy of the Koran in his garage. — Sion Owens, a BNP candidate in the forthcoming Welsh Assembly elections, was charged under the Public Order Act.
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The Jawa Report and Weasel Zippers
Chris Buckley / Reuters:
China tells U.S. to quit as human rights judge — (Reuters) - The United States is beset by violence, racism and torture and has no authority to condemn other governments' human rights problems, China said on Sunday, countering U.S. criticism of Beijing's crackdown.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Truthdig
Stewart Bell / National Post:
20 Canadians have joined Somalian terror group: official — TORONTO — About 20 Canadians have travelled to Somalia to join Al-Shabab, a federal official said two weeks after a Toronto man was arrested as he was allegedly leaving to enlist in the al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group.
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Jihad Watch and The Jawa Report
William J. McGee / New York Times:
Forcing the F.A.A. to Fly Blind — PASSENGERS fainted when a 5-foot hole opened in the roof of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 flying from Phoenix to Sacramento last week. The most frightening moment may have been when, as one passenger said, “You could look out and see blue sky.”
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Balloon Juice
Xinhua News Agency:
Arab League to ask UN for imposing no-fly zone over Gaza — The Arab League (AL) said on Sunday it would ask the United Nations to consider imposing a no-fly zone over the Gaza Stripe to protect the civilians against Israeli air strikes. — In a statement issued after an emergency meeting …
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Pajamas Media
James L. Huffman / Wall Street Journal:
How Donor Disclosure Hurts Democracy — As a candidate, I learned how much potential campaign contributors fear incumbent retribution. — In the debates about campaign-finance regulation and the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision of last year, there seems to be widespread agreement on one thing …
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The Volokh Conspiracy